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March 27, — Exhibited. Fruits : From J. F. Allen, Black Hamburgh 

 and Isabella grapes, in fine state of preservation ; they were packed in dry 

 cork dust, in the same way in which the foreign kinds are imported ; also, 

 figs and Bergamot Easter pears. From E. Wight, Roxbury Russet and 

 Nonsuch apples. 



April 3. — The stated quarterly meeting of the Society was held to-day, — 

 the President in the chair. 



The President, from the Executive Committee, reported tliat they had 

 considered the subject referred to them respecting the salary of the Treas- 

 urer, and recommend that it be increased to $100 per annum; and that 

 they deemed it unnecessary to require him to give bonds. 



Mr. C. M. Hovey, from the Committee appointed for that purpose, read 

 the following Report: — 



The Committee to whom was referred the subject of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society subscribing one hundred dollars in aid of the com- 

 pletion of a monument to the late Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn, have had the 

 same under consideration, and beg leave to submit the result of their 

 deliberations. 



Your Committee do not deem it necessary to enter into any eulogium of 

 the life and character of Gen. Dearborn. For the last thirty years his 

 name has been before the public in connection with every improvement in 

 horticultural science ; and for more than twenty-three years, especially in 

 connection with our Society. The original Constitution was framed and 

 drawn up by Gen. Dearborn : he was the first President : as Chairman of 

 the Library Committee he made the first collection of books : he opened 

 and kept up a correspondence with amateur and professional cultivators 

 and nurserymen throughout Europe, the results of which have been the 

 elevated position and the influence it now yields abroad and at home; 

 through his advice and with his cooperation, the valuable seedling pears of 

 De Van Mons were added to our collections, even before they found their 

 way into the hands of his nearest neighbors : to our list of American fruits, 

 at that time exceedingly limited, he added the Dearborn's seedling : but his 

 crowning effbrt was the establishment, laying out, and the completion of 

 Mount Auburn Cemetery, a monument indeed of his taste and knowledge 

 of the great art of landscape gardening : and of his foresight in providing 

 for the future wants of the Society, extending its usefulness, and elevating 

 its position. Yet, with an enthusiasm never slumbering, never idle, he has 

 left us — almost his last earthly labor — the rich legacy of a history of the 

 Society, from the first preliminary steps of its organization up to the period 

 of his death — a work comprising some seventy or eighty pages in the last 

 and concluding number of the transactions, soon to be published. 



And what service can the Society now render, for labors so generously 

 and disinterestedly performed, more fitting, more appropriate, than that 

 they may be allowed to contribute of their means towards the completion 

 of a monument to his memory ? Your Committee have no desire to aid in 

 80 laudable an object for the mere purpose of erecting a splendid mausoleum, 

 attractive only from its amplitude of size, or its elaborateness of finish, but 



